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Janet Malcolm
AuthorBooks · Second hand1934-2021
Janet Clara Malcolm was an American writer, staff journalist at The New Yorker magazine, and collagist who fled antisemitic persecution in Nazi-occupied Prague. She was the author of Psychoanalysis: The Impossible Profession (1981), In the Freud Archives (1984), and The Journalist and the Murderer (1990). Malcolm wrote frequently about psychoanalysis and explored the relationship between journalist and subject. She was known for her prose style and for polarizing criticism of her profession, especially in her most contentious work, The Journalist and the Murderer, which has become a staple of journalism-school curricula.
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About Janet Malcolm
Birth
1934
Death
2021
Janet Clara Malcolm was an American writer, staff journalist at The New Yorker magazine, and collagist who fled antisemitic persecution in Nazi-occupied Prague. She was the author of Psychoanalysis: The Impossible Profession (1981), In the Freud Archives (1984), and The Journalist and the Murderer (1990). Malcolm wrote frequently about psychoanalysis and explored the relationship between journalist and subject. She was known for her prose style and for polarizing criticism of her profession, especially in her most contentious work, The Journalist and the Murderer, which has become a staple of journalism-school curricula.
Born in Prague, Janet Malcolm became one of the most incisive voices in American journalism.
Her masterpiece, In the Freud Archives, is a fundamental reference for understanding the intersection of biography and psychoanalysis.
Throughout her prolific career, she published 47 works exploring the complexities of the human condition.
Beyond writing, Malcolm developed an artistic side as a photographer, demonstrating a sharp and multidisciplinary eye.
Her analytical and rigorous style established her as an essential figure in 20th-century New York Times reviews.
